Simplicity
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Curse you, Wizards! You've turned my favorite game into an RTS! It's no longer possible for the DM to win by roleplaying, he has to use tons of low hitpoint minions? OMG Zerg rush! I hear that they're adding tank characters, but Starcraft had tanks like forever. And heroes? Wizards has been playing too much Warcraft III. And now I hear there going to add more races in an expansion pack? Just like an RTS!
I saw the reports from D&D Experience, and that's just not D&D. Sure, it's got the brand name, and classes like D&D, and levels like D&D, and the six ability scores, and the settings are going to be the same, and there's probably going to be the same dungeons, and the spells have the same names, and the monsters are going to have the same names, and the dice are polyhedrons, and there's still some unbalanced DM guy, but that's not the D&D I know. The D&D I know had this awesome story about my character Warlon, who fought his way into the Tomb of Horrors, only to die in a spikey pit. And in the D&D I know we then had to pretend that didn't happen. In the D&D I know, our party finally found some elven chainmail, but then they didn't trust the rouge and they killed him for it. In the D&D I know, the cleric could ressurect the rouge only to have the fighter kill him again. In the D&D I know, we all found a Deck of Many Things that slowly killed the whole party. The D&D I know I played in middle school, and this version definitely wasn't out then.
That's why I'm sticking with my D&D. Because if 20 years of playing experience tells me one thing, it's that I was happier playing it 20 years ago.
I saw the reports from D&D Experience, and that's just not D&D. Sure, it's got the brand name, and classes like D&D, and levels like D&D, and the six ability scores, and the settings are going to be the same, and there's probably going to be the same dungeons, and the spells have the same names, and the monsters are going to have the same names, and the dice are polyhedrons, and there's still some unbalanced DM guy, but that's not the D&D I know. The D&D I know had this awesome story about my character Warlon, who fought his way into the Tomb of Horrors, only to die in a spikey pit. And in the D&D I know we then had to pretend that didn't happen. In the D&D I know, our party finally found some elven chainmail, but then they didn't trust the rouge and they killed him for it. In the D&D I know, the cleric could ressurect the rouge only to have the fighter kill him again. In the D&D I know, we all found a Deck of Many Things that slowly killed the whole party. The D&D I know I played in middle school, and this version definitely wasn't out then.
That's why I'm sticking with my D&D. Because if 20 years of playing experience tells me one thing, it's that I was happier playing it 20 years ago.
